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Y WAIST' f NQ. 538,897. Patented May 7, 1895.'

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CHARLES N. OHADWIOK, OE BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ALICE OHADWICK,OE SAME PLACE. Y

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 538,8 97, dated May'7, 1895.

Application filed November 5, 1894.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES N. CHADwIox, of Brooklyn, in the county ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new Improvement in VVaists;and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to bea full, clear, and exact descriptionof the same, and which said drawingsconstitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a view in elevation of a portion of a waist provided withmyimproved garmentsupports; Fig. 2, a broken sectional view of Fig. l;Fig. 3, a similar view showing one of the modified t'ormswhich myinvention may assume.

My invention relates to an improvement in Waists, such as underwaistsand shirt-waists for children, the objects being to provide such Waistswith simple, convenient and effective means for the attachment of othergarments to them, and to make the attachment and support of the othergarments as unobtrusive as possible.

With these ends in view, my invention conv sists in certain details ofconstruction as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in theclaim. In carrying out my invention, as shown, I employ agarment-support consisting solely of a short, flexible connection A,provided with two buttons B B', located at its respective ends, andpermanently secured thereto. The said connection Vmay consist of a cord,or a tape or a strap, and preferably the material employed will beelastic, though that is not essential. Such garment-supports arevertically arranged -with one button' above the other in the body C, andvertical bands C', of the waist, 'whether that be ashirt waist, or anunderwaist. The small portion of a waist shown byFig. 1 of the drawings,is provided with only one of the vertical bands, but it will beunderstood that eachwaist contains several of them. For the applicationof the garment-supports, each band is constructed with an opening D,which, as shown, is a vertical opening, while the body O of the waist isconstructed at a point directly back of the open- Serial No. 527,899.(No model.)

ing I), withacorrespondingopening'D'. The lower button B' of thegarment-support is located upon the outer face ofv the band, where it isexposed for the attachment of the garment, while the lower end of theconnec 55 tion A extends inward from the said button B', through both ofthe said openings D and D', and directly upward on the inner face of thebody of the waist, and directly behind the band, to a vertical openingor button-hole D2, 6o which is located above the opening D', and throughwhich the upper button B of the garment support is passed, so as tolocate it between the said body and the inner face of the band C',whereby the upper button B', and 65 the main portion of the connectionA, are concealed from view, and the strain or draft upon thegarment-support taken by the described application of the upper buttonto the body of the waist, which, it will be understood, is 7o reinforcedby the application of the vertical band to its outer surface. Only thelower button B' and a small portion of the connection A are seen, whichmakes the garment-support as appliedvvery unobtrusive and neat. When itis desired to lauuder the waist, the garmentsupport is readily removed,and it is, with ,equal convenience, re-applied.

In the modified construction shown by Fig.

3, a tape containing a buttomhole, or a loop 8o of cord E, is secured tothe inner face of the body F of the waist, for the receptionv of theupper button G ofthe garment-support, which also consists ofa shortflexible connection G', and a lower button G2, which is exposed upon 8 5the outer face of the band H, while the lower end of the connectionpasses forward through an opening H' formed in the band, and an openingF' formed in the body of thewaist. The tapeor cord E is locatedback ofthe band 9o I-I, which reinforces the waist.

I am aware that it is old to provide a waist with a removablegarment-support exposed entirely upon the outside of the waist, andconstructed at its upper end with a buttonh'ole adapting it to bebuttoned to a button permanently fastened to the outside ot the waist,and provided at its lower end with a button for the attachment of adepending garment. In the old construction just described, roc

however, the entire article is exposed upon the outside ofthewaist,instead of being partially concealed, and carries only one button,the other 4being applied to the Waist, and likely to 5 be detachedtherefrom in laundering.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is- The combination with a Waist having averio tical band applied to the outer surface of its body, of agarmentsupport consistingr solely of a short, flexible connection, and abutton permanently applied to the respective ends thereof, the saidgarment-support being re- 15 inovably attached to the said body andband, with one button directly above the other, and with the lowerbuttonexposed upon the outer CHARLES N. CIIADWICK.`

Witnesses:

FRED. C. EARLE, LILLIAN D. KELSEY.

